Quotes About Restraint

There is never a point in showing your hand before you have to; that is just a way to ensure giving the game away.

Chains," said the Tinker, coming up behind her. "They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.

El alcohol desinhibe, reduce el autocontrol e incrementa la impulsividad.

former NSA director Michael Hayden: "Give me the box you will allow me to operate in. I'm going to play to the very edges of that box. . . . You, the American people, through your elected representatives, give me the field of play and I will play very aggressively in it.

Stern social measures had to be adopted to keep entire populations from disintegrating in an orgy of plenty.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course— its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.

And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.

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Ain't one limb enough?

The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue, and the greatest pleasure, one that moves orderly; for if you speak evil, you yourself will soon be worse spoken of.

Never drink before sunset; Never drink more than 3 days in a row.

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

Sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing.

However, what is done is better left alone, though we resent it still, and we must curb our hearts perforce...as for my death, when Zeus and the other deathless gods appoint it, let it come.

In a system of intimidation and control, people do not show how much they know, how deeply they feel, until their practical sense informs them they can do so without being destroyed.

the ground. Even his mouth was tied so that he couldn't

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

The idea is to show him that you were always in total control of yourself and your vehicle—while he lost control of everything.

But the fact that Segarra was exercising some sinister control over me began to get on my nerves. Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant, it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want.